Have any of you received a message like this ever from Google:
“It has come to our attention that despite multiple disapprovals, you have repeatedly submitted ads that violate our Editorial Guidelines and content policies.
Please consider this notice a final warning. If you submit these ads again or continue to run ads that violate our policies, we will be unable to run any of your AdWords ads in the future.”
I received this message after I recently uploaded a new campaign. Now this campaign was promoting a legitimate (big) company with a 100% legal service. Someone at Google got confused and by mistake took my ads as promoting something illegal. So ALL of my ads where dissapproved and I received the above scary message!
When I contact Google about this they basically gave me the middle finger in their reply. They basically said yeah you’re not promoting anything illegal BUT you have a bridge page so screw you anyways (I was actually testing the market with this page before I built out a full blown site).
So now I’m working with my affiliate managers to try to get my site whitelisted. My team is going to beef up our site with content and hopefully it will pass muster with Google.
Here’s the thing…
You need to tread softly with Google, they’ve been banning affiliate Adwords accounts left and right recently.
A good friend of mine lost a 6 figure income because Google shut his account down. Google claimed one of his sites had spyware – which was TOTALLY bogus. He was just promoting Clickbank ebooks.
He tried to work with Google to resolve the issue to no avail.
SCARY STUFF!
If Google doesn’t like your sites or what you’re promoting and shuts down your account down you’re screwed.
There’s NOTHING you can do.
Carefully read Google guidelines and try to stay in the straight in narrow as much as possible.
And make sure your landing page has substantial content or links to other pages on your site that have value added content. Google is cracking down on bridge pages like nobody elses business, and yes, I’ve heard of affiliates who have had their accounts shut down over having bridge pages.
Hi Amit,
I got it too yesterday.. what do you do with account that have a final waning?.. i’m sure u have MCC, do you just unlink account that have receive warning letter from your MCC?.. because i’m scare if they will ban me if i got this mail again from other account..